This video image taken from Egyptian State Television shows 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak laying on a hospital bed inside a cage of mesh and iron bars in a Cairo courtroom as his historic trial began on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him.

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